ABSTRACT
From interviews with and questionnaires sent to 251 employers in typical enterprises of Minneapolis, it was found that there were more than 25,106 persons employed. Of this total number 269 were Negroes. In interviewing employers, the writer found a wide-spread apprehension over the relatively great expansion of the Negro population in recent years. Although the Negro population is numerically small, it is feared that a sudden multiplication of erstwhile southern Negroes will disturb comparatively tranquil race relations. The individual bargaining of the early competitive period of economic history which is designated handcraft-domestic industry has been supplanted to a great extent by collective negotiations between large employing enterprises and thousands of workers organized in unions. The mortality rate among the colored policyholders from tuberculosis is beginning to look like that among the whites when the tuberculosis campaign was begun. The infant mortality for Negroes was 110; for whites, 73.
